Sixteen Candles (1984) Samantha Baker is an everyday teenager. This is the story of the worst day of her life - her sixteenth birthday. A date no one remembers, not even her adoring grandparents. Samantha suffers the exaggerated problems of a normal adolescent girl: Problems like an infatuated freshman, a spoiled sister, a brattish younger brother, confused parents, overbearing grandparents, a crazy china man and most of all.. a beautiful blonde rival who stands in the way of her and the man of her teenage dreams! </center>